BAY MINETTE, Ala. -- A Baldwin County judge sentenced a 69-year-old Foley man to life in prison Friday in connection with the 2008 shooting death of his wife, and added a year for an attack on the couple's 14-year-old son after the killing.

Mumford made no statement before the sentence was passed, but his son from a former marriage did travel to testify about abuses from decades ago.

"What Timothy Mumford had to say was pretty powerful about his father's character," said Baldwin County Chief Assistant District Attorney Michael Pylant. "Judge Partin gave him the maximum sentence for murder and for domestic violence, and that is what we asked for."

Pylant said Mumford had lived under aliases, going by the last name "Welsh" here until the shooting of Teresa Ann Welsh. The couple had three sons.

But Mumford had been living "a false life" in Baldwin, Pylant said, with violent crimes dating back 50 years in other parts of the country. Pylant said Mumford was convicted of armed robbery in 1960 in Marion County, Ill., and of incest with his daughter in Harris County, Texas, years later.

Timothy Mumford testified that he had two brothers and two sisters in Texas, all David Mumford's children. He told the judge his father had been convicted of incest with his sister. He also testified that his arm had been broken by his father who then forced him to stay out of school for months so he wouldn't tell about the injury. The father set the broken bone at home himself, his son testified, using rough splints.

Defense attorney Pascal Bruijn filed an appeal for Mumford, but had no further comment regarding the case on Friday, he said.

A jury took less than an hour in April to convict David Mumford of murder in the case, and of domestic violence for choking his son after killing the teen's mother in front of him.

Prosecutors said Mumford shot Teresa Ann Welsh in an attack at their home on Father's Day, June 15, 2008. According to testimony in the case, Mumford killed his wife when he learned she was planning to end their relationship due to his abusive behavior. Mumford's attorney contended the shooting was self-defense as Welsh used pepper spray in the attack.

Mumford told police after the killing that he didn't mean to kill his wife who was shot once in the back and twice in the head. During the trial, the couple's sons, ages 23, 16 and 14, testified about the deadly attack and severe abuse.

Also Friday, former Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine, 46, waived arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty to murder. A grand jury indicted Nodine on May 24 in connection with the shooting death of his girlfriend, Angel Downs, 45, of Gulf Shores. Nodine remained in jail Friday.

In another high-profile case, Charles Milton Lewis, 50, of Summerdale, waived arraignment and pleaded not guilty to child sexual abuse and attempted assault. Lewis, a science and reading teacher at Causey Middle School in Mobile, smashed his car on the way to a school function in March and officers said he admitted he was drunk. In the wake of that case, a child accused Lewis of touching him inappropriately on an overnight visit to the teacher's home, and another allegation followed. Lewis remains on paid administrative leave.

Court officials said the waiver of arraignment and not guilty pleas from both men put the cases on active pending status and trial dates will be set.